Great German psych-folk-kraut-rock-album.
Has it all ... from psych acoustic-guitar-tunes ... mellotron tunes ... to heavy krautrock explosions.
With sax and fantastic flute solos ... and great male and female English vocals.

Sunday, 8 February 2015

Some very great tracks on this LP !
A little bit of country, a slice of folk, some psych feelings, ...
Listen especially to the last track "Back to Om" ! Amazing !!!
A really interesting and great LP in my opinion.

Some really nice Xian loner folk with mesmerizing chord progressions that could almost classify this as "acid folk". If you dig loner Christian vibes like David Bixby and Jon Polce this is RIGHT up your alley !(review written by Alex on RYM)From the back cover: "Tragically, the dreams have evanesced. Victim of an automobile accident in 1973, Mike gallantly bears the cross of paralysis."Listen here :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgxtU3jbrTwRecord : Still SealedCover : Exc (Still Sealed)Price : 120,00 Euros (+ expedition costs calculated by the Belgian Post office)Payment : PAYPAL or Bank transfer (ask for my account number)Contact : etienne.reyser@gmail.com

Lovely and still mostly unknown private press LP by this California-based duo, with a vibe somewhere between the bittersweet folk-rock sound of late 1960's Donovan, Smokey & His Sister etc. and early 1970's DIY singer-songwriter.
Brother Randy Curtis, who sang lead and wrote all the songs, died of cancer before the album's release and this was privately funded by friends and family in his memory.
The songs have a yearning innocence and undeniable sadness about them, aided by Curtis' gentle, melancholy vocal delivery. There's also an endearing, claustrophobic bed-sitter quality common to a lot of private press albums of the period -- and weirdly enough, a few tracks call to mind the simple ballads and love songs on Roky Erickson's solo records.
Definitely grows on you with each listen, and still off the radar screen for 1970's private press albums.
(review taken from popsike)